Cyprus Residency Agency: what we file, and what we cannot

Who appears when you search for the best Cyprus residency agency

Three kinds of result, and they are not competing for the same job.

Cypriot law firms, which are the ones who can represent you if an application is refused and who are genuinely needed for arguable domicile and treaty questions. Property developers and their agents, whose interest in your residence permit is that it comes attached to a EUR 300,000 unit they are selling. And relocation and immigration agencies, including us, who assemble and file.

The listicles ranking the "best" of them are almost entirely written by the firms themselves or by affiliate sites paid per referral. That is worth knowing before you treat a ranking as a finding.

Why nobody can honestly claim to be the best

An approval rate would be the obvious evidence, and no agency can produce a verifiable one. Nobody publishes which cases they declined to take, which is what decides an approval rate more than competence does: refuse the weak files and your numbers look superb.

The Migration Department does not publish per-representative statistics either, so there is no external figure anyone could point to even in good faith. So we do not use the word. What we can show you is our prices next to the published prices of twelve Cyprus firms, and the source under every legal figure on this site. Both of those you can check yourself, which is the only kind of claim worth making.

What a Cyprus residency agency actually files

• Route selection. Visitor permit, digital nomad, foreign-interest company, Blue Card, Regulation 6(2) or Category F. The choice follows how you earn and what you can evidence, and getting it wrong costs months, not money.
• The document list, once. Apostilles, certified Greek translations, criminal record certificates, medical tests, health insurance, the lease or title deed. Collected after the route is fixed, so nothing expires waiting.
• The filing. In person, or by representative, at the Migration Department in Nicosia for the permanent residence routes.
• The company, where the plan needs one. Name approval, incorporation, registered office, directorship, Tax Department and VAT registration.
• The tax side. Tax identification number, the 60-day rule conditions dated and evidenced, form TD38 with the domicile questionnaires, then the tax residence certificate for EUR 80 once the year qualifies.
• The calendar afterwards. Permit renewals, the annual proof that an investment is still held, criminal record certificates every three years, the day count and the annual returns.

What no agency can do

1. Make a decision happen faster than the law allows. The expedited investor procedure and the EUR 100 accelerated company registration are the only speed options that exist.
2. Get you an approval on facts that do not meet the criteria. The income tests are numbers on a government page.
3. Guarantee a Cyprus bank account. That is each bank's own decision under EU anti-money-laundering rules.
4. Promise you citizenship. Naturalisation is a separate decision by a separate ministry, the citizenship-by-investment programme was terminated in 2020, and anyone selling a Cyprus passport today is selling something that does not exist.
5. Decide what your previous country thinks. Exit taxes, centre-of-interest tests and treaty tie-breakers are that country's law.

What it costs

State fees are separate, every time: EUR 500 per residence application, EUR 70 per person for the registration card, EUR 20 for a yellow slip, EUR 140 for a first visitor permit, EUR 165 plus EUR 10 at the Registrar, EUR 80 for a tax residence certificate.

Those market figures come from fees the firms publish themselves, read in October 2026, with ranges taken at their midpoint. No Cypriot firm publishes a full itemised rate card, so read them as orders of magnitude rather than as a strict average. We are above the median on permanent residence and at or below it everywhere else, and we would rather show you that than claim to be cheapest.

When a lawyer is the better call

When your domicile of origin is Cypriot or arguable, because that is the hinge the whole non-dom result turns on. When two countries both claim you and a treaty tie-breaker has to be argued. When EU restrictive measures could touch you or your money. When you are naturalising. And when an application has been refused and you want to challenge it, because that is representation and not filing.

In those cases we will tell you so on the first call and point you at someone, rather than take a fee for a file we do not think should be filed.

Where we fit, and where we do not

We fit the case where someone earns through a company, wants to be in Cyprus legally, and wants the tax position to be the one the law actually gives rather than the one a brochure describes. One fixed fee, state fees shown separately, a source under every figure, and a plain answer on the first call if Cyprus does not suit how you earn.

We do not fit someone looking for a passport, someone whose plan depends on a bank saying yes, or someone who wants the cheapest quote. On this route the cheapest quote usually means the income evidence has not been looked at yet.